By: Capriglione H.B. No. 5469
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the abolishment, creation, and re-creation of reports.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act "report" means an ad hoc
or periodic publication, study, compilation of information,
statement or written work product produced by an agency in the
executive or judicial branch of state government for distribution
to the legislature or an agency in the legislative branch of state
government and includes reports that are also for distribution to
an officer or agency in the executive branch of state government.
SECTION 2. ABOLITION OF REPORTS. Except as otherwise
specifically provided by this Act, all reports created by law
enacted or re-enacted by an Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2025, that becomes law are abolished on the later of August
31, 2025, or the date the Act creating the report takes effect.
SECTION 3. PREVIOUSLY EXEMPT REPORTS; CONSTITUTIONAL
REPORTS. Section 2 of this Act does not apply to reports that were
created by law enacted before the 89th Legislature convened, or to
reports required by state constitutional law.
SECTION 4. FEDERAL REPORTS. Section 2 of this Act does not
apply to reports created under an Act of the 89th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2025, for which the report is required by federal
law.
SECTION 5. EXEMPTED REPORTS. Effective on the later of the
effective date of the Act creating the report or August 31, 2025,
the following reports, if created or re-created by an Act of the
89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, are exempt from Section 2
of this Act, and the reports are created or re-created as specified
by the Act creating or re-creating the report:
(1) the [report] established by House Bill No. ____ or
similar legislation;
SECTION 6. EFFECT OF ACT. (a) This Act prevails over any
other Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, that
purports to create or re-create a report, regardless of the
relative dates of enactment,.
(b) An exemption from the application of this act, contained
in another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, that
is exempted from the application of Section 2 of this Act has no
effect.
SECTION 7. EFFECTIVE DATE. Except as otherwise provided by
this Act:
(1) this Act takes effect immediately if this Act
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution;
and
(2) if this Act does not receive the vote necessary for
immediate effect, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
last day of the legislative session.